I am new here, and this is my first comment on anything.. 2 nights ago our farm cat gave birth to 3 kittens in our burn pile. I new she was getting close because she was getting more and more persistent on wanting inside. I got her to come out of the nest she had made with some coaxing of food. And was able to get all the kittens. I showed momma I had them and she followed me back to the house. I was able to get her inside and in the basement in our laundry room. I made a nest in a laundry basket with a heating pad under the blankets and I used puppy pads on top so I can change them out. This is my first at having kittens. So I do not know allot. Momma settled in downstairs.. She is used to being outside, as she has never spent a night indoors ever. She was wild when she showed up here, and became more and more tame. She seems to be a first time mom, she is only leaving them to eat and she won't use a litter box at all. She comes upstairs and meows at the door to go outside. Could not have asked for a better cat. We call her momma kitty, since we don't normally name the few cats that do show up. We live in the country in north east Nebraska, and we get allot of cats.. Some are dropped off, some are wild and pass thru. And then we have 3 that have decided to stick around. We feed them, and in the winter we provide blankets with a heat source. Anyways momma and babies seem to be doing good. It has been not quit 48 hours since birth. And since I didn't see her have them I don't have a time. Just no that Sunday night she was pregnant and Monday morning she had a wet tail and def had just had babies. It took me awhile of spying to get her to show me where they were. But once I found the spot she walked right in.
